I am glad to read that finally some people (I guess young and ambitious volunteers) discovered how rotten is big part of the ACU collective (old guardians of the order). I was talking about it at least 5 years ago!!! We should resquat the Acu and kick some people out of this collective! I support places that have an open character and promote diversity in a different ways and surely I don't like squatters or punks ghettos and the ACU should not be a punk or squatters ghetto, but last years the ACU is becoming more and more commercial. The ACU open character is unfortunately not meant to show to different people some alternatives (political, musical etc), but open character of the ACU for broader public serves only to get more money and satisfaction of being popular place in Utrecht. It seems that some people involved in the ACU collective forgot about political roots of this place and for them quantity (and therefore more money in the cash) is more important than quality of this place that last years is only going down. Part of statement on Fuckbook is unfortunately very real: "Over time power-structures and positions of power have been created by people, and even though there have been multiple attempts to dismantle these, none of these attempts have succeeded." Did you (people visiting the ACU) ever pay attention how many party lights is on the ceiling?! Did you ever think how much money cost: to buy all those party lights, to maintain them and to pay more for electricity bill each month? How many direct actions, political groups and activists in poorer countries the ACU could support instead of buying so much party lights? I wonder this since few years!!! I know, what I am talking about, because I am visiting commercials venues too (for example Tivoli, Paradiso, 013, Effenaar etc.) and some of them don't have so many lights, but that are places much bigger and with more cash than the ACU and without political roots. People reading this can think, who cares about some party lights? But there is really exaggerated amount of party lights for such a small venue as the ACU!!! We are not talking about few hundreds euros or few thousands, but we are talking about dozens of euros and the people holding power in the ACU (old guardians of the order) should answer how much and why they spent so much cash on the party lights? I am spending my money in the ACU, so I'd prefer that this (mine too) cash goes to political activities instead of party lights! Who needs so many lights? Perhaps some one is making a good money by buying party lights for the ACU. Good to hear that there is some revolt happening in the ACU right now, maybe something will finally change in this place.
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I am glad to read that finally some people (I guess young and ambitious volunteers) discovered how rotten is big part of the ACU collective (old guardians of the order). I was talking about it at least 5 years ago!!! We should resquat the Acu and kick some people out of this collective! I support places that have an open character and promote diversity in a different ways and surely I don't like squatters or punks ghettos and the ACU should not be a punk or squatters ghetto, but last years the ACU is becoming more and more commercial. The ACU open character is unfortunately not meant to show to different people some alternatives (political, musical etc), but open character of the ACU for broader public serves only to get more money and satisfaction of being popular place in Utrecht. It seems that some people involved in the ACU collective forgot about political roots of this place and for them quantity (and therefore more money in the cash) is more important than quality of this place that last years is only going down. Part of statement on Fuckbook is unfortunately very real: "Over time power-structures and positions of power have been created by people, and even though there have been multiple attempts to dismantle these, none of these attempts have succeeded." Did you (people visiting the ACU) ever pay attention how many party lights is on the ceiling?! Did you ever think how much money cost: to buy all those party lights, to maintain them and to pay more for electricity bill each month? How many direct actions, political groups and activists in poorer countries the ACU could support instead of buying so much party lights? I wonder this since few years!!! I know, what I am talking about, because I am visiting commercials venues too (for example Tivoli, Paradiso, 013, Effenaar etc.) and some of them don't have so many lights, but that are places much bigger and with more cash than the ACU and without political roots. People reading this can think, who cares about some party lights? But there is really exaggerated amount of party lights for such a small venue as the ACU!!! We are not talking about few hundreds euros or few thousands, but we are talking about dozens of euros and the people holding power in the ACU (old guardians of the order) should answer how much and why they spent so much cash on the party lights? I am spending my money in the ACU, so I'd prefer that this (mine too) cash goes to political activities instead of party lights! Who needs so many lights? Perhaps some one is making a good money by buying party lights for the ACU. Good to hear that there is some revolt happening in the ACU right now, maybe something will finally change in this place.